“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.” IfsThinkingKnowsUseDecisionLove IsVirtueTeachingCollegeMajorsHighestClaimsWho You AreGuaranteesAppropriateDecision MakingAcademicCriteriaPretentiousGuarantees ThatWhat Is LoveAcademic Life Author:Leroy S Rouner
“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.” MenWayUnderstandingCommonBreakGenerationsTeachingCenturyParticularBabyMajorsComplexesErasManhoodMy GenerationNineteenth CenturyProceedingManlinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Waller R Newell
“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.” MenGivingCountrySecretVirtuePathFivePrideKeysDemandVicesManhoodMasculineDilemmaDistinctiveGrapplingCourage To Love Author:Waller R Newell
“The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.” PeopleWellsMeanPersonsImportantHelpingTodayYoungDealsEducationVisionTestsPreparedEducatedBe PreparedDilemmaEducated PersonEducation Today Author:Linda Lantieri
“Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.” LooksTalentProveUglyActressesPatheticJessicaAmazing Talent Author:Kevyn Aucoin
“Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.” LittlesAmericaSecretQualityDataCorporateDirtyCorporate America Author:Paul Gillin
“Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.” GivingChildrenHomeTruthKnownClearGreaterHonestHappeningsOur ChildrenCleanLegacyYour ChildrenTelling The Truth Book:The Tao of Motherhood Source: The Tao of Motherhood
“God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any other individual from pain, sorrow, or economic disaster, but He does give assurance the He will help us through and that there will be compensations. "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you." These are the words of Jesus.” GivingDoeHelpingPainJesusIndividualEconomicSorrowPromiseIndividualityDisasterCompanionshipAssuranceCompensationExemption Author:Daniel A. Poling
“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image” HumansMatterFormDiesIndividualProcessVoiceWealthHuman BeingsModernExerciseCapitalismOrganizationManagementDressesSlaveryPrivilegeExtremesContemporaryManagersEmployeeArbitraryPostmodernTerminology Author:Kenneth Cloke